Kettell, Samuel: Specimens of American Poetry...1829 |
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... Oh ! that I had Wings like a Dove , 343 Lines on Sunset , 344 Spirit of Spring , 346 On a very old Wedding Ring , 347 The Cloud Bridge . 348 • NATHANIEL H. WRIGHT , 349 PAGE . The Isle of Flowers , The Star of viii CONTENTS .
... Oh ! that I had Wings like a Dove , 343 Lines on Sunset , 344 Spirit of Spring , 346 On a very old Wedding Ring , 347 The Cloud Bridge . 348 • NATHANIEL H. WRIGHT , 349 PAGE . The Isle of Flowers , The Star of viii CONTENTS .
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... wings and die : Gray Neptune rises from his oozy bed , And shakes the sea - weed from his shaggy head ; He bids ... wing he flies , Cherub THOMAS DAWES . 35 THOMAS DAWES, The Law given at Sinai,
... wings and die : Gray Neptune rises from his oozy bed , And shakes the sea - weed from his shaggy head ; He bids ... wing he flies , Cherub THOMAS DAWES . 35 THOMAS DAWES, The Law given at Sinai,
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Specimens of American Poetry... Borne on the whirlwind's rapid wing he flies , Cherub and seraphim prepare his way , Black thunder rolls and livid lightnings play . Heaven's radiant bow his awful head arrays , His face the sun's ...
Specimens of American Poetry... Borne on the whirlwind's rapid wing he flies , Cherub and seraphim prepare his way , Black thunder rolls and livid lightnings play . Heaven's radiant bow his awful head arrays , His face the sun's ...
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... wings , and thought her foe was dead ; Yet she but fled , to gain in happy Greece , What Egypt had denied her - rural peace . The Grecian souls , form'd of the subtlest kind , In freedom nurtured , strengthen'd and refined , Quick catch ...
... wings , and thought her foe was dead ; Yet she but fled , to gain in happy Greece , What Egypt had denied her - rural peace . The Grecian souls , form'd of the subtlest kind , In freedom nurtured , strengthen'd and refined , Quick catch ...
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... winter rock'd thy cradled muse . Seasons and suns , and spangled systems roll , Like atoms vast , beneath thy cloud - capt soul . Time wings its panting flight in hurried chase , But 50 ROYALL TYLER , Address to Della Crusca,
... winter rock'd thy cradled muse . Seasons and suns , and spangled systems roll , Like atoms vast , beneath thy cloud - capt soul . Time wings its panting flight in hurried chase , But 50 ROYALL TYLER , Address to Della Crusca,
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